Unfortunately it doesn't seem to support cursive, which is how I and most people I know write.
I think that might be generational. I don’t know anyone under 40 who writes in cursive. I certainly don’t.
FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font
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#12There used to be multiple tools like this from different websites, but they were all bought by Calligraphr to redirect to them instead, giving them an effective monopoly and letting them charge subscription fees for generating fonts over the limits of the free version. I used to create two fonts and merge them with FontForge to get a complete usable font.
Great to see some competition on the market. Completely in the browser would mean it does not depend on a server and continues working as an archived version, so that's certainly great.
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#13Unfortunately it doesn't seem to support cursive, which is how I and most people I know write.
I think that might be generational. I don’t know anyone under 40 who writes in cursive. I certainly don’t.
It is probably country and language dependent, I think. I don't know anyone under 40 who doesn't write in cursive (in Russian), and for other languages I personally also write in cursive (and learnt that in school). I'm in my 30s.
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#14Amazing way to show-case a tool (all in-browser, can be done so simply), super disappointed in the result. I took care writing all the letters, but when I looked at the generated font, even some of the corner markers ended up as letters!?
Not sure if this was meant to work with cursive handwriting?
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#16Not sure it would work in my case. I do love to take the very different freedom it brings. For example the mid bars of a t is often taken as an opportunity to go through above the whole word. But I wouldn't do it every single time, as it would feel too much overload.
I also don't write the same way on a post it ready to throw than in my little personal aphorism book, where I try to craft something where the form connects with the intended meaning.
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#17The idea is cool, but, well: "No account, no server, 100% private — everything happens in your browser."
Your post makes it sound like you consider this a bad thing?
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#18Unfortunately it doesn't seem to support cursive, which is how I and most people I know write.
I think that might be generational. I don’t know anyone under 40 who writes in cursive. I certainly don’t.
That's not generational. Living in France I can ensure you that in primary school, kids still learn and use cursive as main writing system. I wasn't even aware anyone would use anything else to write by hand in Latin script.
I'm curious to get information about how people write elsewhere and how does it look.
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#19new signature-forging tool just dropped, suite !
I hereby declare I''ll be unfit for school next Friday due to an illness.
Signed, Mom